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How to keep your Mudlet profile safe!

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== Keeping your Mudlet Profile safe ==

We spend countless hours tinkering with our triggers and scripts and all of that work is saved in our profile. Mudlet does its part in creating backup copies of your profile and even goes as far as [https://www.mudlet.org/2018/07/mudlet-3-11-quality-improvements-all-around/ autosaving your changes every so often]!

However, all of that will be for nought if your hard drive crashes, or your computer is stolen, or you forgot it at the airport, or you literally threw it out the window because rage quitting a raid-gone-bad wasn't enough! Thankfully there's a solution to that. We can sync our Mudlet profiles with an online service and even have it available on multiple computers on top of it!

Here's the rundown on how to do it:

# Install and setup your favourite file sync solution (Tresorit, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.)
# Locate your Mudlet profile with the [https://wiki.mudlet.org/w/Manual:Lua_Functions#getMudletHomeDir getMudletHomeDir()] function
# Close Mudlet, open the location we got in step 2 in your file explorer
# Move that folder to the place you setup your file sync solution from step 1
# Link the folder back to its original location so Mudlet can continue using it

=== Example on Windows with OneDrive ===

Windows 10 usually comes with OneDrive pre-installed and it'll let you sync your Documents, Pictures, Vidoes, etc. to the cloud as long as you're signed in with your Microsoft account. Here's how I would go about with keeping my Mudlet profile safe in it:

# [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sync-files-with-onedrive-in-windows-615391c4-2bd3-4aae-a42a-858262e42a49 Install and set up OneDrive]
# Locate my Mudlet profile by putting ''getMudletHomeDir()'' in an alias, it gave me ''C:\Users\Ada\.config\mudlet\profiles\Achaea''
# I closed Mudlet and opened that location in Windows Explorer
# I moved the ''Achaea'' folder to my OneDrive which was at ''C:\Users\Ada\OneDrive''
# I opened the Windows Command Prompt (Start > Windows System > Command Prompt > Right-Click/More/Run as administrator) and issued the following commands:
#* ''cd C:\Users\Ada\.config\mudlet\profiles\''
#* ''mklink /d Achaea C:\Users\Ada\OneDrive\Achaea''

And that was it! I can now use Mudlet and my profile is synchronized with my OneDrive account whenever I make any changes.

=== Example on Linux with <x> ===
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=== Example on MacOS with <x> ===
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 # [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sync-files-with-onedrive-in-windows-615391c4-2bd3-4aae-a42a-858262e42a49 Install and set up OneDrive]
-# Locate my Mudlet profile by putting ''getMudletHomeDir()'' in an alias, it gave me ''C:\Users\Ada\.config\mudlet\profiles\Achaea''
+# I put ''getMudletHomeDir()'' in an alias to locate my Mudlet profile, it gave me ''C:\Users\Ada\.config\mudlet\profiles\Achaea''
 # I closed Mudlet and opened that location in Windows Explorer
 # I moved the ''Achaea'' folder to my OneDrive which was at ''C:\Users\Ada\OneDrive''
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 And that was it! I can now use Mudlet and my profile is synchronized with my OneDrive account whenever I make any changes.
-=== Example on Linux with <x> ===
+=== Example on Linux with Dropbox ===
-TBD
 === Example on MacOS with <x> ===
 TBD